"The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history," claimed Collingwood. In this remarkable collection of essays, many published for the first time, Frank Ankersmit demonstrates the prescience of that remark and goes a long way toward meeting its challenge. Responding to the work of Hayden White, Arthur Danto, and Hans-Georg Gadamer...(展开全部)

This book puts forward a different approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of the 100,000 or more years that humans have had language, states of equilibrium have existed during which linguistic features diffused across the languages in a given area so that they gradually converged on a common prototype. From t...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 斯蒂芬•格林布拉特（Stephen Greenblatt），著名文学批评家、莎士比亚研究学者、作家，哈佛大学约翰•科根校级教授（John Cogan University Professor），《诺顿版莎士比亚全集》主编，曾获梅隆杰出人文学者奖、普利策奖、美国国家图书奖等，著有《大转向》、《莎士比亚的自由》（以上两部作品已由甲骨文推出中文版）、Will in the World、Tyrant等知名作品。 【译者简介】 生安锋，清华大学人文学院外文系长聘教授、博士生导师，中国比较文学学会理事，国际比较文学学会会员，美国哈佛大学博士后，中美富布赖特高级研究学者。研究领域包括英美文学、当代西方文论、比较文学、文化研究等。

Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story of humanity’s first parents. Comprising only a few ancient verses, the story of Adam and Eve has served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of our fears and desires, as both a hymn to human responsibil...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 斯蒂芬•格林布拉特（Stephen Greenblatt），著名文学批评家、莎士比亚研究学者、作家，哈佛大学约翰•科根校级教授（John Cogan University Professor），《诺顿版莎士比亚全集》主编，曾获梅隆杰出人文学者奖、普利策奖、美国国家图书奖等，著有《大转向》、《莎士比亚的自由》（以上两部作品已由甲骨文推出中文版）、Will in the World、Tyrant等知名作品。 【译者简介】 生安锋，清华大学人文学院外文系长聘教授、博士生导师，中国比较文学学会理事，国际比较文学学会会员，美国哈佛大学博士后，中美富布赖特高级研究学者。研究领域包括英美文学、当代西方文论、比较文学、文化研究等。

Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story of humanity’s first parents. Comprising only a few ancient verses, the story of Adam and Eve has served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of our fears and desires, as both a hymn to human responsibil...(展开全部)

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11. This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the days an...(展开全部)

The financial and economic collapse that began in the United States in 2008 and spread to the rest of the world c ontinues to burden the global economy. David Kotz, who was one of the few academic economists to predict it, argues that the ongoing economic crisis is not simply the aftermath of financial panic and an unusually severe recession but instead is a structural crisis o...(展开全部)